Yves Montand

Talk story about an interview with Yves Montand, film star, political activist, and singer. He paid a brief visit to New York last week to check on arrangements for his forthcoming one-man show at the Metropolitan Opera House. He has pursued a dual career--as a singer of popular songs and as an actor in films. His return to the music-hall stage last October at the Olympia in Paris, after an absence of nearly 13 years, set off waves of nostalgia that turned the engagement into a national event. The audiences turned out to be considerably younger than anybody had anticipated. At 60, he is still an improbable mixture of theatrical shrewdness and political idealism. Tells about his involvement with causes which has sometimes made it difficult for him to work in the U.S. He was going to Brazil for a four-concert tour. He had refused to go there for years but now says Brazil is opening toward democracy a little bit. He described, in some detail, some of the material he has selected for his one-man show, and told about his work.